Quote Originally Posted by geoduck View Post
He's dead. This is a recording the message-clank made when he and it met in Sturmhalten. It's (unsurprisingly) how the clank ended up in England: Wooster sent it there.
And it seems that he was not really aware that he was being recorded. We might learn something interesting here. I am quite sure that this will be exactly the narrative reason for that little clank to be found here.